Bars worth up to $368 million rained down after the aircraft suffered damage during takeoff on Thursday.
Covering 11 generations over a period of 500 years, the family tree is thought to be the largest ever created.
Scientists have discovered a huge colony of over 1.5 million rare penguins on a remote Antarctic island.
A table-sized antenna has picked up the fingerprints of the first ever stars to emerge after the Big Bang.
The most recent consignment to arrive at the facility has brought its total number of deposits up to 1,059,646.
Zoologists have been left puzzled by a female lion that has mysteriously sprouted mane-like head and neck hair.
It is believed that plants first arose on land 100 million years earlier than previous studies had suggested.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe has captured a stunning new image of the Earth against the blackness of space.
NASA's New Horizons probe has made history again by capturing images 3.79 billion miles from the Earth.
The space rock known as 'Oumuamua is thought to have been tumbling around chaotically for billions of years.
Scientists have used microlensing to discover planets in a galaxy over 3.8 billion light years away.
A new study has revealed that large numbers of viruses may be falling from the sky on a daily basis.
The dinosaurs' total domination of our planet may have played a major role in their eventual demise.
Scientists have identified a species of long-tailed proto-spider dating back over 100 million years.
100 million-year-old dinosaur and mammal tracks have been found at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Scientists have identified an area of Australia that broke away from North America 1.7 billion years ago.
The 'Tolkienesque' landscape is made up of 26 underwater volcanoes buried beneath seabed sediment.
A fascinating discovery has called in to question everything we know about the evolution of butterflies.
The ridiculously long number, like all prime numbers, can only be divided by either itself or by one.
Experts have been left perplexed by the unexplained deaths of millions of kangaroos in Australia.